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Standing up to big nickel : the story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers' strike, 1958 Book
author.Quinlan, Elizabeth (Assistant professor),
Book | McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal ; 2025.
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All miners and smelter workers know the folly of going on strike when their employer holds a stockpile. In 1958 the International Nickel Company had enough nickel on hand to guarantee sales for at least six months. Despite this, fourteen thousand miners and smeltermen in Sudbury, Ontario, downed their tools and struck against the corporate titan of the mining industry. Standing Up to Big Nickel is a comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike by the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, a union that has inspired exceptional levels of solidarity among its members. The union straddled the line, she shows, between its historical commitment to working-class struggle and the newly restrictive legal landscape of the postwar era. Retrospective accounts by surviving union members, leaders, family, and community members bring to life the history of a distinctive group of workers who sweated over smelter furnaces and toiled underground in perilous conditions. Quinlan traces the events before, during, and after one of Canada's greatest strikes in both magnitude and duration. Featuring biographical sketches and scenes based on archival and documentary data, Standing Up to Big Nickel captures an intensely dramatic juncture in Canadian labour history.
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  • ISBN: 9780228024804
  • Physical Description: xxi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Montreal ; McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.
  • Bibliography, etc. Note:
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
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